Cambridge city workers honoured for saving coworkers life
Posted Jan 12, 2010 05:45:38 AM.
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Cambridge City Council honours its own – members of a Public Works crew – that may very well have saved the life of a coworker.
Back on November 2nd, they were doing repairs to a water line on Beck Street when one of the workers suffered severe cuts to the neck when a saw with which he was working kicked back and sliced into his neck.
His coworkers – Ron Bell, Brad Mercer, Dave Pollington, Jim Siefert and Barry Lougheed – immediately called 9-1-1, but realizing the severity of the injury, rushed him to the hospital themselves, with one of them applying pressure to his neck to control the bleeding.
Just over a month later, he was back on the job.
Last night at council, Mayor Doug Craig said “The quick actions of the crew and particularly those of the first responders Bell and Mercer were the reason their coworker survived the accident that day.”
